Quotes from Maharajji

Here is a selection of 108 Quotes of things said by Maharajji according to 'Miracle of Love', in alphabetical order. See section names and page numbers for personal reference.



#Quote from 'Miracle of Love' (1979)SectionPage#
1A saint never accepts money.About Money221
2All is God's will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it's all God's will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.Sadhana334
3All religions are the same, they all lead to God. God is everybody... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference, see all the same.Sadhana354
4All the money in the world is mine. Even the money in America.About Money223
5All women are mothers and sisters, and all men fathers and brothers in God's family.The Family Man273
6As long as the time does not arrive, one cannot die.The Great Escape394
7Ask God or Hanuman. I'm just an ordinary being. I can do nothing.God Does Everything142
8Attachment is the strongest block to realization.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
9Change is the way of the world, and if in this Kali Yuga (Dark Age) it has to go this way, let it go. Unless you are the Lord, you can't stop it anyway, so why berate it?God Does Everything140
10Christ died for truth.About Truth199
11Cleanse the mirror of your heart, and you will see God.About Anger and Love259
12Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?About Meditation and Service239
13Clinging to money is a lack of faith in God.About Money219
14See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.Under Maharajji's Blanket62
15Due to individual karma, people must be sent away from a saint. How this is done varies. When the time for the association ends, the separation must occur.Jao377
16Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart.About Anger and Love259
17The body passes away. Everything is impermanent except the love of God.The Great Escape394
18Everywhere I look I see only Ram, and that's why I'm always honoring everything.Hanuman371
19For a sadhu to stay in one place means trouble. A moving yogi, and a moving river... impurities and sediments and filth can never settle there. If I stay here, attachment will form.Like the Wind266
20Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable...he can give up anger immediately.About Anger and Love256
21Give up money, and all wealth is yours.About Money219
22God will give you everything you need for your spiritual development. Hold on to nothing.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment197
23This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
24He was crucified so that his spirit could spread throughout the world. He sacrificed his body for the dharma. He never died, he never died. He is Atman (the Soul), living in the hearts of all.Sadhana353
25I am everybody's guru.God Does Everything143
26I am here and I am in America. Whoever remembers me, I go to.Key To The Mind114
27I am in the world but not concerned with the world. I am going through the marketplace, but not as a purchaser. ~Maharajji quoting KabirMaharajji's Teachings: About Attachment193
28I am the father of the world. The whole world is my child.God Does Everything142
29I could have been such a great saint if I weren't so compassionate.About Anger and Love261
30I could not get angry with you, even in a dream.About Anger and Love252
31I do nothing. God does everything.Hanuman371
32I don't want anything. I exist only to serve others.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment194
33I have no powers. I don't know anything.God Does Everything130
34I will never allow one of my people to escape from me.Jao377
35If the clay in a pot is unbaked, then when the pot breaks, the clay is reused. But if the pot is baked, then when it breaks, it is thrown away.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
36If you are free of attachment, you will lead a simple life in a simple environment.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment197
37You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.About Anger and Love259
38If you desire a mango at the moment of death, you'll be born an insect. If you even desire the next breath, you will take birth again.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
39If you do not make it empty, how will you fill it up again?Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
40If you have a toothache, you do what you do, but the mind remains on the tooth.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment197
41If you have enough faith, you can give up money and possessions. God will give you everything you need for your spiritual development.About Money208
42If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will fall away."Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
43If your kundalini (spinal energy) awakens, you can go to America without a plane.Embodied Spirit177
44Devotion to God is an addiction that lasts all the time.About Drugs227
45India is a golden bird. It is a country of rishis and saints.God Does Everything140
46It doesn't matter if you are married or not, it only matters how much you love God.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment196
47It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.Sadhana329
48It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment197
49Just as you filter water, have a working knowledge of Gurus.Sadhana348
50Keep God in your heart like you keep money in a safe.Sadhana334
51Keep me in your heart.About Anger and Love261
52Kumbhak (retention of breath) can be attained through bhakti (devotion) also. When the emotion reaches climax, the breath stops and the mind becomes fixed.About Anger and Love259
53Kundalini rests below the navel. It can be raised by the Guru's grace, by the gentle, simple touch of the Guru's hand.About Meditation and Service246
54Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.About Anger and Love261
55Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.About Anger and Love260
56Love the poor. Serve them. Give everything to the poor, even your clothing. Give it all away. Jesus gave away all, including His body.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment197
57LSD allows you to come into the room and pranam to Christ, but after two hours you must leave. The best medicine is to love Christ.About Drugs231
58Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - these are all paths to hell.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
59"Ma, what am I to do - there is no eye that can follow me. No one knows me, no one understands me. What am I to do?" (Said four days before He left His body)God Does Everything131
60The person close to me can be scolded.About Anger and Love252
61Marriage is more attachment. You need more devotion and discipline to have union with God when you are married.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment192
62Meditate to raise the kundalini. Think about God; it will go right up.About Meditation and Service242
63Meditation is good, one can attain a pure mind by one-pointedness and detachment. Meditate upon one point and you will know God.About Meditation and Service239
64Money brings anxieties.About Money220
65Money is an obstacle. One in communion with God needs no money.About Money214
66Money is never a problem. The difficulty is in the correct use of it. Lakhs and crores (large amounts) of rupees would come easily if they were going to be put to wise use.About Money212
67Money should be used to help others.About Money217
68Never hurt another's heart.About Anger and Love259
69Everyone is a reflection of my face.Sadhana355
70People are quick to take a chapatti, but slow to take the name of God.Sadhana339
71Saints and birds don't collect. Saints give away what they have.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment191
72Christ and Hanuman saw all women as the Mother. You have to understand the Mother to realize God.Krishna Play295
73See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.Krishna Play295
74Serve as Hanuman served.Hanuman361
75Serve the poor and remember God. You become one with Christ.About Meditation and Service247
76Temples are but piles of stones. Attachment holds you back.Maharajji's Teachings: About Attachment194
77The best form to worship God is every form.Sadhana355
78The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.Sadhana334
79The eyes of a saint are always concentrated on the supreme self. The minute he is aware of himself, sainthood is lost.Sadhana347
80The great sadhus don't have a human body. They are omnipresent. If a saint changes form, he doesn't necessarily have to take on a human body. The soul is the small form and the human body is the huge form.Embodied Spirit183
81The guru must know everything about you.Key To The Mind105
82The heart never grows old.About Anger and Love258
83The mind should always be engaged in work.About Meditation and Service248
84All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilling. All water is the Ganga, all land is Varanasi. Love everything.Sadhana345
85The whole universe is your home. All are your family.The Family Man273
86To see God, you must have special eyes. Otherwise you cannot bear the shock.About Meditation and Service242
87Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.About Truth199
88Truth is the most difficult tapasya. Men will hate you for telling the truth. They will call you names. They may even kill you, but you must tell the truth. If you live in truth, God will always stand with you.About Truth199
89Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.Sadhana329
90When a man has reached the point where he can sit in meditation for six months, there is no need of eating, no need of latrine or of rest. Only one drop of amrit nectar from the top of the head to the body keeps him alive. If a tiger eats that body there is no care, but only when the life comes back to the body will there be pain.Sadhana328
91When asked how the heart could be purified, Maharajji said, "Always speak the truth."About Truth200
92He was one with all beings and He had great love for all in the world. He was one with God.Sadhana353
93Whoever works for God, his work will be done by itself.About Meditation and Service248
94Why are you with such ego? One of these days you will have to leave this world and become one with the Earth. ~Maharajji quoting KabirThe Great Escape394
95With desires, Hatha yoga does not work. Today no one really knows Hatha yoga. It can't work through books. They used to fast and use herbs.Sadhana328
96I send people away because attachment happens both ways.Jao377
97Work is God. Work is worship.About Meditation and Service248
98One should not talk of things which were not of any benefit to anyone and, if it is difficult to believe, it should not be said at all.tbdtbd
99Worldly people go outward, but you must go inward like the tortoise, withdrawing within your shell.About Meditation and Service239
100When people think of me, I am with them.Afterward410
101You can leave me. I won't leave you. Once I catch hold of you, I don't let go.Afterward407
102You can't realize God if you see differences. Learn to find the love within.Sadhana355
103You get wisdom from suffering. You are alone with God when you are sick, in the cremation ground or hospital. You call on God when you suffer.The Stick That Heals159
104You must accept everyone and see in them the Lord. There is no other need for a saint.Sadhana355
105You must accept the teachings of Christ and follow them. Christ said to be like a little child - never think or speak anything that could harm anyone.Sadhana353
106You must honor Shiva through love. Ram and Shiva are the same. Ram worshipped Shiva, Shiva worshipped Ram, they are only one.Sadhana354
107You should do your work, be friendly to everyone, and never quarrel with anyone. People who are jealous of you will oppose you in various ways but do not take it to heart. Do your work like a great hero and all will be well for you.tbdtbd
108You should not talk about your wealth, wife, or sadhana or they will go away.God Does Everything132


The original table was from the initial neemkarolibaba.com site, begun in 1999.
Using additional quotes from "Miracle of Love", on Feb 1, 2021, this table was expanded from 52 quotes to 108.